Odoardo Somigli (La Spezia, 12 August 1892 – Rome, 24 February 1967) was an Italian admiral during the interwar period and World War II.

During the First World War he initially served on the armored cruiser Pisa with the rank of sub-lieutenant; in 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant and assigned on the submarine H 5 as executive officer, subsequently assuming its command and participating, after the Armistice of Villa Giusti, in the occupation of Umago.

[1][2] From 1929 to 1932 he served at the Naval Academy of Livorno, while in October 1932 he was executive officer of the royal yacht Savoia during Victor Emmanuel III's voyage to Eritrea.

In this position, Somigli effectively exercised command of Supermarina in the first six months of the war, marked by the battles of Punta Stilo and of Cape Spartivento.

[11] On 7 September 1943 he participated in a meeting held at the headquarters of the Royal Italian Navy, in the presence of the Chief of Staff Raffaele de Courten, in which he was informed that preparations were to be made for the possibility of hostilities with the German forces in the near future.